My brother who paid the biggest price that anyone could pay..just a child when he was taken but a bigger man than most ever become..I still can't wrap my head around it being almost 8 years since he was ripped away from his family and from us..his brothers..
I will never forget all the bottles of Captain Morgan and Coke strung out over his room a few days we deployed and him just shrugging his shoulders and saying to me, "It could be worse, there could be a fat girl in my bed too."
All of the good times, all of the jokes, all the laughing, all the long ruck marches, all the hot shitty days that never seemed to end..looking back on those are some of the greatest memories of my life..then it all came to a stop and no more of those memories would ever be made